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Fren [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A stranger. [Not used.]

Fren [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A stranger.

Frena [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

French [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

2. FRENCH Chalk, scaly talc, a variety of indurated talc, in masses composed of small scales; its color is pearly white or grayish.

French [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The language spoken by the people of France.

French [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

French [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The language spoken in France.

2. Collectively, the people of France.

French Encyclopedia Britannica

FRENCH, Nicholas (1604-1678), an Irish political pamphleteer, was born in Wexford in 1604. After receiving ordination at Louvain, he became Roman Catholic priest at Wexford, and in 1643 he was appointed bishop of Ferns. Having taken a prominent part in the political disturbances of this period, he deemed it prudent, after the universal submission which followed the storming of λVex-ford by Oliver Cromwell, to retire to Brussels, where, in 1652, he published his attack on Ormond, entitled The Unkind Deserter of Loyal Men and True Friends, and shortly afterwards The Bleeding Iphigenia. The most important of his other pamphlets is the Sale and Settlement of Ireland. Shortly before his death, which took place August 23, 1678, he was nominated coadjutor-archbishop of Ghent. The Historical Works of Bishop French, comprising the pamphlets above named and several others, were published at London in 1846 in 2 vols., and a notice of him will be found in T. D. Μ‘Gee’s Irish Writers of the 17 th Century, London, 1846.

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French-horn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A wind instrument of music made of metal.

Frenchified [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenchify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make French; to infect with the manner of the French.

Frenchify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

Frenchifying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenchism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.

Frenchlike [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Resembling the French.

Frenchman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A native or one of the people of France.

Frenchmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenetical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.

Frenetir [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.

Frenum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.

2. A cheek stripe of color.

3. Same as Fraenum.

Frenums [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenzical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenzied [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Affected with madness.

Frenzied [Past participle and adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.

Frenzies [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenzy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Madness; distraction; rage; or any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction.

2. All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

Frenzy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frenzy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.

Frenzy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness